Risk and public policy in East Asia
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Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
Sprache: | English |
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Ashgate
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction : risk and public policy in East Asia / Raymond K.H. Chan, Mutsuko Takahashi, Lillian Lih-rong Wang -- The relevance of social science approaches to risk for social policy research / Jens O. Zinn -- Visualizations of risk and governance : some observations on change / Bridget M. Hutter -- Risks, family, and gender justice in contemporary Japan / Mutsuko Takahashi -- Rebuilding the family unit or defamilialization? : the politics of family policy for social risks in South Korea / Naoko Soma -- New social risks and family change in Taiwan / Tsung-Hsi Fu and Rhidian Hughes -- Managing family risk in Hong Kong : how and why / Raymond K.H. Chan -- Managing family-related risks in East Asia / Lillian Lih-rong Wang -- Unemployment and government's role in a risk society : a case study in Taiwan / Fen-ling Chen -- Managing risks during a financial crises : promises and fallacies of the productive welfare model in Hong Kong / Raymond M.H. Ngan -- Managing or generating new social risks? : labour market changes and the Japanese welfare regime / Junko Yamashita -- Comments on socio-economic security in four East Asian societies / Dukjin Chang -- Risk governance in a double risk society : from system failure to unknown complexities / Jaeyeol Yee -- Social inequalities in the perceptions of risk and vulnerability : the case of floods in Taiwan / Hsiu-jen Jennifer Yeh -- Risk and the emergence of new subpolitics in Japan / Ki-young Shin -- Governance and social risks in East-Asian countries : peculiarities and new paths / Jen-der Lue Contemporary Asian society is marked by social processes associated with the loss of stable economic growth and high employment; family structures capable of caring for family members in need; and governmental economic and political competence. Against this backdrop, this volume offers a timely review of these critical issues, offering an introduction of the concepts and theoretical approaches of risk and risk and governance that places them within the context of Asian societies |
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Beschreibung: | xv, 234 pages |
ISBN: | 9780754697664 0754697665 9780754678953 0754678954 |